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What my dad’s semester here taught me was that unlike Middlebury, say, where the undergraduate experience is arguably more uniform, the college experience at Harvard didn’t mean having a series of fairly common formative experiences and wearing a lot of polar fleece. It meant choosing carefully. So I missed out on lasagna. It’s okay. I have my mother’s recipe. Besides, I don’t think my parents serve Scotch at those parties anyway...
...soldiers' bar near Fort Stewart Army base in Hinesville, Ga. "Politics, religion and work," says the bartender, a military wife. But when the subject of the Iraq prison scandal is broached, the patrons at Gilly's are quick to break the house rules. "For 23 years I wore that uniform, and this was the first time I was ashamed of it," says Will Blackman, a leather-skinned veteran who retired as a staff sergeant in 2002 after serving in Panama, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo. Fort Stewart is home to the Army's 15,000-member 3rd Infantry Division...
...variety of reasons, Labor also lost a bunch of its own marginal seats - or those that were deemed theirs through redistributions. According to a recent study by officers of the Parliamentary Library, to win the 13 seats for an absolute majority at the coming election, Labor will need a uniform two-party preferred swing of 2.2%. It's not getting easier...
...addition they are subject to trial and punishment by military tribunals for acts which render their belligerency unlawful.” The Nazi agents, in the Court’s view, were plainly “unlawful” combatants, as they came secretly “without uniform...for the purpose of waging war by destruction of life or property...
...president and other top officials in the Arab media, and in the congressional testimony by Secretary Rumsfeld and some senior military officers, has been to paint the Abu Ghraib abuses as an abhorrent and unacceptable aberration, the work of a few bad apples who have sullied their uniform and endangered the overall U.S. mission. Both the president and his defense secretary have made clear that the very process of inquiry now must serve as an exemplar to the Iraqis and the Arab world more generally of America's good intentions, and the principles of democratic accountability...